Environmental Health Priorities

The Health Department was awarded a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to find out what environmental health issues are most important to county residents, and what we should do about them. To do this, Pierce County Coalition for Environmental Health Priorities members met from April 2007 to January 2009. Please click on the link for meeting agendas, notes, and more:

The Health Department applied for but did not receive an EPA CARE Level II grant in 2009. In 2010 the funding committee combined the community gardening and restoring natural areas action plans into a Neighborhood Stewardship Action Plan, incorporating reasons the 2009 proposal was rejected. The South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group offered to be the lead/fiscal agency and submitted the 2010 proposal: